Yes, that's what I'm suggesting. Cursor is spamming the models with too much context, which harms reasoning models more than it harms non-reasoning models (hypothesis, but one that aligns with my experience). That's why I recommended testing reasoning models outside of Cursor with a hand curated context.

The advertised context length being longer doesn't necessarily map 1:1 with the actual ability for the model to perform difficult tasks over that full context. See for example the plots of performance on ARC vs context length for o-series models.